Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1887-06-10
O. BARNES
GOD Is LOVE AND NOTHING ELSE
PRAISE TIE LORD.
"GoyERSoE's LouGE,"


DRIPPISG SPRINGS, June q, 1857
DEAR INTERIOR We feel very much at
home in our old, comfortable qusrIers, and
a heavy rain, that for two hour. hiss been
deluging this favored resort, brings very
specslly to mind our experience OF the for
mer visit, when everything "dripped" con
tinuously for many days, besides the great
ppring, and the sound Of falling waters"
had all the romance extracted from it in
very shectusl way.
From our perch on the hill-de we look
out upon the same resiful Landscape We sd.
mired 20 much last year. Olly II il far
more beautiful now than then. The mea
dow in front Of the hotel il in is most lux
uriani stage; the wheat field beyond, fully
headed, and the soft green corn rows across
Fall Lick, prettily "pclks-dols" the freshly
plowed ground oar aupelheAtre Of green
hill, il perfect in outline and foliage; snd
Brother Slaughter has 40 tre-hened up eve
rything with delicate paints and washes
that the eye is quite satisfied at every turn.
frog. and whip.poor wills running melodi
QUE race; frogs eighty ahead but the
pluckv "whips" not At all disposed to sue
cumb. Thst which stepped our native
senses ia sweeies, Lsthe, kept Cousin Jude
wake hslf the night, being aunsccurtomed
TO the strange notes Of the n.ght.bird.
confess they are not such sweet singtrs ~
Eaglish nightingale, 10 whose music We
used 10 listen With rspt attention in the
beautiful Keut woodlands returning 10
Bexley Heath by the late trains.
Ga our way down from Georgetown, by
rail, We net friends and atqu,intsnce' al
every station and los OF people recogniE ID
on the cars Jack and Della, who mys.
teriousiy Sppear IN Scrip and Purse /.
smother connection, brought wonderful
baby on board for us TO look at and admire,
aud travelled down the road Ve miles with
us, that we might have good look at the
wonderful darling. 1t iss regular Love
OF baby, and no mistake
Soon after, on the l. n n, we met sEo,h.
er party We have known from little child.
hood, and she, too. had magnificent boy
in arms. A Marie remarked! on smother
OCCASION 81 feel like MsthusAleh," when
tae babies Of one generation come across
he stage, bearing ia their maternal or pa
ternAl arms the babies OF another genera.
ton. Thee phenomens are growing mon.
Il frsn 81 lata IN
Kentucky stamping grounds"
LIS mighty plessan, to meet old frisnds
looking out for you, even when you can
only hsvea ding greeting. Thank you,
dear, kind, thoughtful ope-, one and ALL
who took the trouble to come on, to vari
Gus depots that broiline SATURDAY in June,
to bid IA welcome and speed US lovingly en-
our way. We always feel that our "labor
had not been in vain in the LORD when
such demonstrations occur.
Brother Dan, IA We delight to call the
energetic proprietor Of Dripping Springs,
awaited our arrival at Crab Orchard What
acomfort to have one man around who
knows exactly what he is about! He
price s above rubies." No bother, no
wrong, after you strike Brother Dam
Nothing forgotten; nothing left behind.
Away we 20 ia the comfortable hack,
whirling up the dusty streets Of the Or
chard." nod. right and left at recognized
friends. A sharp turn to the right before
We reach "The Springs" ard soon we are
out in the country, The late rains have
made the road sofl and rutty in places. but
our stout horses are equal to it, We dash
on through Dix river, where the thirsty an
finals thrust their muzrles deep in the cool.
ing stream, as they drink. Dat again and
up the one steep hill, where little honest
pulling has to be done before it ia quite
surmounted. Through the oak woods We
clstter, on the down side; ford pretty Fall
Lick; trot brukly 200 yards aud our desti-
nation ia reached. 1t is r gala day. A
big picnic lie in progress and gres
crowd throngs the versndah, with bant
discussing sweet music by way OF vel
come. We met many friends and &C
quaintances among the. picnicers, and fee
very much at home indeed eat late din
ner, reserved for our party by Sister s!augh
ter; climb to the Governors Lodge, our oil
roosting-plsce, and soon feel as If the min
months since we left our familiar quarter
we're a dresm. The msrrymskers scstte
quadrvious before dark, and the frogs an
wbip.poor.wills aiore'aid supplant the'wear
led band and furnish music for the rest o
the night-hillsids fowl responding 10 n
croakers Of the valley in measured AM
monotonous cadence.